Saturday, May 26, 2007

Forest Service Bars Ski Film

This is an extraordinary story of extreme overreaching on the part of the Forest Service and "Environmentally Correct" thinking. If you listen to the first clip you will hear the the Forect Service attempt to deny distribution of a film because of it does not reflect approved "wilderness values."


A film about the adventures of extreme skier Chris Davenport can't be shown. Davenport skied every Colorado fourteener in a year. But his film includes images of federal wilderness areas and violates the Wilderness Act. Mike Lamp speaks with Maribeth Gustafson, Supervisor of the White River National Forest.

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Aspen Man First to Ski All of State's Fourteeners


Extreme Skier Chris Davenport of Aspen has experienced Colorado in a way that no one else has. He's the first person to ski all of the state's fourteeners – 54 of them – in one year. He talks to Ryan Warner about his feat.

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